A few useful modules

Decided that my original post was way to long, so split it...

The other thing I want to do is mention modules that I have found and which I am using, or think will be useful. This is mainly so that I don't forget about them myself when I come to actually need them, but is also part of my goal to keep you all informed of how the project is progressing - especially in the beginning when there is no real working code to show.

As stated earlier, the first thing I have done is implement a basic email interface, specifically to Yahoo! Mail. The module I am using for this is PyCascade, written by Peter Griess. It uses OAuth for authentication, and gets data in JSON format. For this, it includes the simplejson and oauth modules, but I replaced the latter with the better oauth2 module which required some modifications. Depending on how I implement other interfaces, I may end up generalising the PyCascade module, as it is a very nice interface to OAuth and JSON.

The second module I have found is not so much a module as an entire networking engine, called Twisted. It consists of a number of sub-projects covering servers and clients for everything from SSH and SFTP for file transfers through to NNTP for news, and various chat protocols. As it is event-driven, it could be used for implementing some of my information interfaces or communication links, but I will need to investigate further.